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on account of thirst. | Chicken Hawk didit. Hesaid: “T’ll try to get 
back the water. | If lam clever, we shall drink again, but | it is dan- 
gerous. The Water Monster may make war on me in another way.” | 
Chicken Hawk sang, then he went along to the place where | the 
Water Monster lay. Chicken Hawk pulled his arrow | out of the 
wound of the Water Monster. Then the water came flowing out, and | 
the people drank. They were all saved. Then | the people of the 
town went back to the shore. | ; 
Now, it was seen that the water was rising. They went farther 
away from the shore. | The water reached up there. They went 
still farther away from the shore, and again, the water reached there. | 
They climbed the mountains. The water rose, | rose, rose. They 
went to the top of a mountain. | It was still rising, and it seemed 
that in a little time all the land would be gone. || Then Chicken Hawk 
sang in the same way. The chicken hawk was | his manitou; that 
is, the bird chicken hawk. Therefore he was called Chicken Hawk. | 
He opened his sacred bundle (which contained) the tail of the bird 
chicken hawk. | He placed it upright, and said to the people: 
“Watch this | tail. If the water passes the three stripes of the tail, || 
then the world will come to an end. We shall all be drowned. | The 
Water Monster will kill us all. If I am clever, | the water will go 
down, and we shall be saved.’’ Then they watched | the tail that 
Chicken Hawk had put up. Chicken Hawk sang. | Then the water 
reached the first stripe. || The water also passed the second stripe. 
Chicken Hawk was singing, | and the water also reached the third 
stripe. Then it was seen | that the water ceased to rise. They said 
to Chicken Hawk that it had ceased to rise. He said: | ‘‘Watch it!” 
Chicken Hawk was singing. He was told: | “The water is going 
down again.” Then he said: ‘‘Now we shall not die.” He sang. || 
Then the water went down. Then they all went down. | They came 
down. to the foot of the mountain. Then the water | reached back to 
its own place, and everybody was glad. 
Now I have told you what Chicken Hawk and the Water Monster |. 
did in clden times. | 
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Well, now I will tell you what Wolf did | long ago. | 
There was a town, and aman was named Wolf. He was married | 
to a woman in another camp. Her name was Doe. || When his wife 
made moccasins for him, they were bad. When she made moccasins 
for her elder brothers, | they were good. Wolf was angry. He left his 
wife. | He went back to his town. When he arrived, he said: ‘Let 
us start for | my wife’s town. Let us fight them!’’ Then | they 
started. When they arrived, his brother-in-law knew it. He had 
manitou || power. Therefore he knew that they were angry at him. | 
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